I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
JACK LONDONA man with a club is a law-maker.
More Jack London Quotes
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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